1.The 46th Sarala Puraskar, instituted by Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT), offered annually for the best literary achievement, was coffered upon notable poet and writer Devdas Chhotray here Saturday.

2.The ISRO Sunday said its LVM3 launch vehicle is scheduled to lift off with the CMS-03 communication satellite November 2, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

3.The Election Commission of India (ECI) may appoint volunteers to assist booth-level offi cers (BLOs) during the probable special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, a senior offi cial said Sunday.

4.The Andhra Pradesh government has prepared an action plan for relief and essential supplies in pre-cyclone preparedness for Cyclone Montha.

5.The United Kingdom has evinced interest in the e-Courts project that seeks to digitise entire court records, and a delegation from that country would be in the national capital next week to interact with top Union law ministry officials.

6.According to the Ministry of Education’s statistics, 20,817 teachers were employed in the schools with zero enrolments. In a peculiar case, West Bengal accounted for 17,965 such teachers, along with the highest number of schools without enrolments (3,812).

7.The Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report for the session released by the ministry revealed that 76.4 lakh students enrolled in 61,565 schools in the state. As per 2023-24 academic session report, Odisha had eight such schools.

8.Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday praised Koraput coffee, saying that the hot beverage is truly delectable and indeed a pride of Odisha. He said this while addressing the 127th episode of his radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’.

9.The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has introduced a new mechanism to enhance door-to-door waste collection and road sweeping services across the City.

10.Amid the dwindling population of bison in Jharkhand’s Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR), the state authority has sought permission from the Centre to bring the animal from Madhya Pradesh.

11.Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) expelled 16 leaders, including a sitting MLA and two former ministers, most of whom have entered the fray against official NDA candidates.

12.President Donald Trump said Saturday that he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10 per cent because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.

13.Suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris' Louvre museum, the Paris prosecutor said Sunday, a week after the heist at the world's most visited museum that stunned the world.

14.Passenger vehicle (PV) exports from India rose by 18 per cent year-on-year in the April-September period with Maruti Suzuki leading the segment with shipment of over 2 lakh units, according to the The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) data.

15.Weightlifter Priteesmita Bhoi broke the world youth record in clean & jerk on way to clinching gold in the girls' 44kg category at the Youth Asian Games, here Sunday.